Writing About War

With Phil Klay and Rob Densmore. Moderated by Duncan Murrell.

April 15th, 2014
5:00 PM

Archived

An informal discussion with Phil Klay and Rob Densmore focusing on writing about war. Klay is an Iraq war Marine Corps veteran and author of both fiction and nonfiction accounts of war. Densmore is a Navy veteran of the war in Afghanistan and former embedded journalist, currently pursuing a degree in the Divinity School at Duke. The discussion will be moderated by Duncan Murrell, Writer in Residence at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies; Contributing Editor, Harper’s Magazine and The Oxford American; and US Marine Corps Veteran.

While he was at Duke, he also participated in a reading and discussion with other veterans at the former Intrepid Life Cafe.

Phil Klay is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He served in Iraq’s Anbar Province from January 2007 to February 2008 as a Public Affairs Officer. After being discharged he went to Hunter College and received an ...

Duke University

Densmore is a journalist, entrepreneur, theology student, and advocate. He is currently a graduate student at Duke University’s Divinity School. He previously served in the US Navy as a flight officer in Afghanistan, became a front line journalist in Afghanistan, and developed a ...